French Press Testing and Protyping

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morning guys Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school today I really just came down to the classroom and I've got this big overhang down here so it makes it easy to work under and sometimes what's inclement weather out here and I had to pack up my stuff kind of in a rainstorm in Texas last week at our Texas basic class torrential rains the last couple of days guys suffered through it did a great job got everything taken care of and learned all of the lessons that we could possibly teach them in a driving rain but we ended up having to pack up in the rain to get out of there and so I packed most of my stuff up and just stuffed it into my my sleep system might hammock and all that stuff I just stuffed into my backpack so now I need to pull it out get it all separated get it dried out get it put back in the stuff sacks get it rearranged and I also thought while I was down here I would do some prototype testing on a new product that's coming to self-reliance Outfitters for 2019 that I'm doing development on right now I think that develop work is also important for you to see on video so we're gonna talk about some of that as well during this video and I just thought I'd kind of shoot you know it's almost like a day in the life type video this is the kind of stuff I'm doing today I'm unpack and repack and separate sort and I'm doing some prototype stuff and I apologize that my videos haven't been coming as readily as they normally do but I have a couple problems right now the first one is I've been traveling a lot teaching I was in Florida and Texas in the last 30 days teaching two times so that took me away from here shooting videos my other problem is frankly my internet service frontier internet is probably the most horrible service I've ever seen it's the only service that's available out here where I live kind of in the sticks but I'm guaranteed to have a certain upload and download speed for the money I'm paying which is over a hundred dollars a month and I never even get to 70 percent of that speed that I pay for which I'm guaranteed most of the time I'm at less than 20% and right now I'm at 0% upload if you know what a speed test is when I run a speed test it flatlines and times out on upload so I have to drive away from my property and borrow internet from someone else to upload videos which makes even more of a pain to get videos up timely but it is what it is that's the price you pay for living in the sticks I've got the internet service coming out of here for the fifth time in the last seven eight months on Wednesday hopefully they'll fix it again for another two weeks before it goes to crap and I can upload a few videos but for now I'll just keep doing what I got to do to keep getting you guys stuff stay with me we're gonna unpack this stuff and we're gonna look at a new product for 2019 so I've got a pretty good area here to use inside this overhang when it was built it was set up so that there is 20 feet this direction is 20 by 40 so I've got pillars or support beams that are six by sixes every so often down through this building on both sides and that allows me to put hammocks up in here if I need to so I'm going to unload some of the stuff that I'm going to use for my prototyping here and then I'm going to get down to the wet stuff what I've got to do is I've got to set my hammock up because basically I just stuffed it in here I'll show you that when I pull it out so I'm just gonna set up a couple of straps here on these beams not about head level one on each side and then we'll pull my entire sleep system out of here that I stuffed in the rain and we'll look at that now I use a DD 3x3 tarp three meter by 3 meter tarp along with this sleep system and basically this sleep system you can see everything just kind of jammed in here right now I gotta pull it all out and it's basically a Dutch where chameleon hammock and hammock gear calm under quilt over quilt and like I said it's kind of a mess right now so I'm just kind of going to pull everything out and hang it up so that I could separate it and then we'll kind of talk about it once I get it straightened down okay so they get things stretched out where they normally are and I've got my Dutch wear chameleon hammock with bug net here and then a hammock gear.com under quilt over quote scenario and this is a 20 degree I also have a will be in here it's the poncho liner and I usually carry a poncho liner with me on top of that stuff when I'm winter camping and I say winter yeah you don't think winter in Texas is that cold but when it's 75 during the day and all of a sudden this you know 35 40 at night that gets cold really quick because your body can't get used to that temperature jump so what a German to do is my feet are what getting cold more than anything else especially when they're elevated in a hammock so I take that would be a lot of times they'll just shove it straight to the bottom and stick my feet in that in my underwear my over quilt and that usually takes care of the problem probably an old man problems with circulation I don't know but anyway if it happens to you that's a cure for the problem you can also buy baths and booties and things like that that are made out of down that you can wear a lot of hammock companies also so those booties that you can wear so I assume it's a common problem in hammocks for your feet to get cold even if they're stuffed into that over quote like I said because my own does have a foot box in it down at the bottom here that actually zips up here that you can zip up and you can actually cinch it down so that you have a foot box in there that's like I don't know a little bit less than a quarter of the way but I'm going to stretch this all out let this down fluff up a little bit before I put everything away and then I'm just gonna pull all the bags out of the bottom of my pack where I stuffed them when I set up let all this stuff get good dry good fluff back up and stuff things back where they came from I've got a set of bags they recommend that you don't store these under clothes and over quills compressor stuffed they provide panic your doctor provides a large muslin bag you put these into when you're not using them or not packing them so that they don't stay compressed for a long period of time so I'll put him in that before I put everything away

okay so now on to some product development here as you know we've got this killer have a currently sell it's got a basket that goes inside the kettle so that you can't put your copy or whatever in the kettle and kind of percolate that without getting the grounds in your coffee that works really well I want to be able to give people whatever they desire as far as being able to utilize our stainless steel to make food and drinks and beverages the way they want to one of the things that's really popular nowadays it's called the French press and this is really one of my favorite pieces of gear that I carry a lot in my kit this one is a kind of a new one here than one of Mike it's quite a bit more burnt but the size of this is almost perfect for a single guy or a single person cooks that you can store 26 ounce cup inside there you can actually get a small stove inside there if you're using some kind of a pocket rocket type stove or some kind of a snow peak even the Coleman even the Coleman peak one butane stove will fit inside there so you can store a lot of stuff inside here as well you can store your coffee in there if you want to just like this well this is what I do just like that so that you have your coffee ready when you go and this is lemo coffee from northern sweden but i've got a bag of it here in a reindeer pouch so the way these french presses work and this one again is a prototype so all i've done with this one is I've taken this tab off and I'm using the same lid and this first press was designed overseas to fit on top of this existing

pause to work in conjunction with it there are some improvements I'm gonna want to make to this we're gonna get rid of these slits and things like that I'd also like to get this more like a coffee pot get rid of these holes for the hanger bail and actually put a spout on here like a bush pot hazzle but those are all future things that I'm looking at right now I want to see if this French press is going to work so what we're gonna do is we're gonna make some French press coffee and talk about how that's done all right I've got a Coleman Sportster guide series stove here that I use quite often that works really well it's still got some pressure on it so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm gonna equalize everything and release of pressure by taking the fuel lid off and this stuff really works a treat you don't mind the weight and we're gonna give it a few pumps you know lighter out and when we turn this valve it comes on and once it heats up this generator rod it will start to burn very very clean and very well like I said this I keep it in this pouch right here that I may have an old tarp and it really works a treat if you don't mind carrying just a little bit of extra weight to have that stove and I really don't mind it because it's not that heavy to begin with so we're just gonna get our kettle on here on the boil and get that ready now the way this works is you would take coarse ground coffee which this limo coffee is a coarse ground coffee it's kind of made from making cowboy coffee I know that's kind of what they do over there sweet is what we call cowboy coffee and I'm going to take my spoon that I'm going to spoon in two full scoops in here or the spoon heaping maybe three actually depending on strong you want your coffee in Sweden they poured enough of this coffee on top of their coffee pot that they say a mouse can walk across the top of the coffee without getting his feet wet so you can only imagine how much coffee that is in a coffee pot is a lot in a Swedish coffee pot you would use almost this entire brick of level coffee so we've got that thing with some grounds on the bottom and now we're going to set that aside for a minute and just wait for our water heat up and then we'll start back up again don't you see it stems getting right with it now cooking really really nice everything's heated up let me get some bubbles on the side you ready to rock and roll any minute now so while we're waiting on this to boil let's talk about this French press for a minute

what a French press does really is it just separates the coffee grounds from the coffee to separate your mark from your extraction so it has very good applications for purple things as well if you were to say make some type of a purple tea and you put the herb directly in to the water at the end you could separate that without filtering it because this French press becomes a filtering device you've got several different filters on here and screens that actually push down and drive the mark or the coffee or whatever you've got in there to the bottom and let the water come through that's got the extraction in it so you have created a coffee in a French press but you can do the same thing with a Hermel remedy of some sort that you made in camp or at your house so again we've got our coarse ground coffee in the bottom and now we're going to make coffee the way they make it with a French press which is a little different than cowboy coffee so we're gonna walk through that process our water is just about to boil stay with

one thing I like about the stove is you can actually adjust this lever and turn your heat down so you can adjust the amount of flame you know I'm kind of keeping this thing right at the boiling point

and adjusting it down to simmer you can hear that change open that lever all right so the first thing we're going to do with this copy is we're going to pour enough water in here to just cover the grounds and we're gonna let that sit for 30-40 seconds a minute something like that before we add additional water okay so once we've covered the coffee grounds and let it sit for about a minute you can see it's starting to get some foam on the top that's exactly what we're looking for once you get to that point then we're going to go ahead and add the amount of water we want and we're going to let that sit for about three minutes I'm gonna go and put our press on top just close everything in and let it steep for three to four minutes okay so now that we let that sit and steep we take our French press and we push down even in pressure and if you get grounds in your coffee after this then you probably have a coffee grind that is too fine if you find it hard to push this down to separate the grounds from the coffee with your French press then you've probably got to grind this to course we should be ready to go well I just kind of pulled the French press out of here to see if any grounds to kind of escape through looks like everything's trapped on the bottom and I don't see any grounds on the side I'd say that part was definitely the successful test I know what this coffee tastes like guys I appreciate you join me today for this quick video just a little day in the life type vlog video unpacking some gear talking about my sleep system real quick and doing some prototype testing on a new product for an SRO again this product will be available till at least mid 2019 probably by the time I get done finishing up any improvements that I want to make on it get another prototype sample in from overseas we order them and get them over here by boat you're looking at mid 2019 but I'm constantly trying to improve our stainless steel so that it's more enjoyable for you and the woods more usable for you in the woods and then it can be multifunctional this press is multifunctional in that it can be used to make coffee but it can also be used for your herbal remedies and herbal infusions and decoctions as well again to separate the mark from the extraction good good copy a little coffee is one of the few coffees I can stand to drink just straight black to be honest with you I never developed a taste for a black coffee like my father did but Alamo coffee is actually pretty good even black

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